Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the ears of God full of their prayers, than heaps of money in our own coffers with their curses.
Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves.
Will you trust your five senses above the four Gospels?
The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers.
His father was no man's friend but his own, and he is no man's for else.
Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation.